On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Karen Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I asked about COinS because it's something I have vague knowledge of. (And I
> assume it isn't too difficult to implement.) However, if there are other
> services that would make a bigger difference, I invite you (all) to spe
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> COinS are still needed, in particular in situations in which multiple
> resources are displayed on a page (like, for instance, in the search
> results pages of most online systems or on pages such as
> http://citeulike.org, or
One thing to keep in mind when looking at unAPI, COinS and
Microformats in general is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc.shtml
//Ed
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The metadata needs to be related to some element on the page, such as
> the text in a reference. The most natural way to do this (and COinS
> allows this) is to place the COinS next to (for instance) the
> reference to which
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: would
it.
> BTW, I don't see why screen readers would stumble over this when the
> child of the is empty. Do they try to read empty text? And if
> a COinS is processed, we fix up the title so tooltips show nicely.
Yeah, if
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Michael Ang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From what I've been reading it sounds like with title is more of a
> problem than with title. So maybe with title isn't too much
> of a problem in practice? I suspect that whether the span is empty doesn't
> make a differ
Wow, this sounds too good to be true. Perhaps this is premature, but
do you think there might be interest in hosting a code4lib2010 in the
Netherlands? (he asks selfishly).
I see you started a wiki page [1]. If at any point you want
nl.code4lib.org (or something) to point somewhere just say the wo
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
> I know there was a talk about a code4lib Europe in Portugal before. I'd love
> to see a European conference, but I am a little torn between making it a
> separate conference from Code4lib or as a location to host for Code4lib.
> What do p
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Walker, David wrote:
> Some of us can barely afford to get to the east coast of the United States,
> let alone Europe. Not that you have to cater to us poor state university
> folk, or anything. ;-)
There are university folk in the Netherlands too right?
PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>
>> Who's making rules?
>>
>> It's bad to discuss things without your peers before voting on them? I
>> think it's a fine idea to discuss things before just blindly voting on them
>> without discussion. Leads to better in
Hi Godmar:
Perhaps this will seem backwards, but rather than trying to adapt (or
create) a generic AtomPub implementation I've been using vanilla
django, and just rolling my own atom feed and service documents as
standard templates. The advantage here is that my code is custom
suited to my task at
One other suggestion here. If the issue is that amplee, django-atompub
or flatatompub lack the ability to layer in non-atom markup you might
want to look at adding this functionality to your favorite among them,
and seeing if the changes could be rolled back into the project.
I realize this is kin
The TGN is still behind a pay-firewall right? Not that that means it
isn't legit conversation on here (because it is) -- but just curious
what the current state is.
//Ed
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Mike Taylor wrote:
> As usual, an ounce of example is worth a ton of exposition, so:
>
> Suppose I always keep a PDF of my latest paper at
> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/latest.pdf
> for the benefit of people who want to keep an eye on my research.
> (Hey, it
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Mike Taylor wrote:
> It wouldn't be good for much if you couldn't dereference it at all.
I totally agree.
//Ed
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> I completely disagree. There are all sorts of useful identifiers I use in
> my work every day that can not be automatically dereferenced.
How are they useful to you? I'm seriously just asking for examples
here, not trying to start an ar
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
wrote:
> Even more to the point: there is no sound definition of "dereference". To
> dereference a resource means to retrieve a representation of it. There has
> never been any agreement within the w3c of what constitutes a
> rep
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Reese, Terry
wrote:
> FYI for the larger group. Since many members in the PNW simply cannot
> travel to the larger C4L meeting due to budgetary restraints (this year,
> and very likely the next), etc -- we will be starting up a PNW local
> chapter and hosting a one
You could look at JHOVE [1] for validation of the PDF/A.
[1] http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/
Heya Eric:
The main thing you'd want to do would be to make sure URIs like:
http://infomotions.com/etexts/literature/english/1500-1599/more-utopia-221
returned something useful for both people and machine agents. The
nitty gritty details of how to do this can roughly be found in the
Cool URIs
Nice work Eric! You are right to focus on making the data resolvable
first. Ross' advice to work on exposing and interlinking more of your
own data next, instead of trying to link out elsewhere, is good I
think.
I noticed from your compact (and elegant) little Perl script that you
are expecting an
Hi Wayne:
My advice would be to find a real, do-able, and hopefully exciting
problem where you work (or elsewhere) that can be solved with a bit of
automation. Once you've found something to work on, fish around for
the right tools(s) to solve the problem. You can use your peers in
here or elsewhe
Here's another reference to add to some of the great ones so far
(hadn't seen that Norvig one before Chris!). Whatever you think about
Perl, it's hard to argue with Larry Wall's 3 great virtues of a
computer programmer:
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
//Ed
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Wayne Lam wrote:
> So i start browsing on the internet about what OAI, Solr and all related
> thing without a direction, reading books on what Semantic web is and
> subscribe some mailing list of interesting projects. But for a newbie like
> me, it was a bit like in
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Lovins, Daniel wrote:
> I nominate Jonathan Zittrain [1], co-founder of Harvard's Berkman Center for
> Internet and Society [2] (where David Weinberger is a fellow [3]) and author
> of "The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It" [4].
+1
Hi Chris:
Assuming your files are available in a directory like:
http://ia360943.us.archive.org/1/items/talis_openlibrary_contribution/
why not use the manifest file:
http://ia360943.us.archive.org/1/items/talis_openlibrary_contribution/talis_openlibrary_contribution_files.xml
It will help
Thanks for announcing this exciting news Karen. Are there any plans to
improve the Author data view? For example the bibliographic
description you pointed us at [1] references Lawrence Lessig using:
http://openlibrary.org/a/OL1518080A
Which is really nice, and honestly enough to say you are doi
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Ed, I have NO IDEA how you got to rdf/xml from the OL author link -- do
> tell, and I'll take a look! There is no RDF/XML export template for authors,
> but one could be created. The URI/URL is simply the address of the author
> page, and also
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Coombs, Karen
A wrote:
> I hate to say it but as someone who is working with the WorldCat Search API
> at this point I sure could create code that used Open Library data faster if
> you used one of the same metadata formats that the WorldCat Search API uses.
> Whil
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Does it work for folks if this returns either a cover OR a blank? (1x1 jpg).
> It may be awkward to test first for an actual cover. Also, if it's ok to not
> test for a cover, does anyone have a preference over the blank or a 404
> error? I thin
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Keith Jenkins wrote:
> Maybe someone more familiar with PURL systems can tell me... is there
> any way to harvest data from a PURL server, so that a backup/mirror
> can be available?
This would be a great question for the purl-dev discussion list too:
http://www
Hi Erik, all
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Erik Hetzner wrote:
> I might be misunderstanding you, but, I think that you are leaving out
> the implicit dimension of time here - when was the URL referenced?
> What can we use to represent the tuple , and how do we
> retrieve an appropriate repres
Nice work Ross! Users of rubymarc might like to see the performance
enhancements that motivated you to do the nokogiri integration:
http://paste.lisp.org/display/87529
!!!
//Ed
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Apologies for the crossposting.
>
> I want
You should also feel free to discuss AquaBrowser on here too ... the
code4lib discussion isn't limited to opensource software.
//Ed
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Kathryn Frederick
wrote:
> Please excuse cross-posting.
>
> I've set up an AquaBrowser Google Group to share tips and post
> questi
My apologies for the extremely short notice. There is a Vocabulary
Camp taking place at the Library of Congress all day tomorrow and part
of Saturday (Oct 30-31). All are welcome to attend. More information
is available at:
http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampDCOctober2009VoCampDCOctober2009
Vocabul
Hi Brendan:
Ahh the lovely MARC-8 :-)
It's a fair bit of effort I think. One approach could be to porting
the MARC8->Unicode functionality from pymarc [1,2]. It's only one-way,
but that's normally what most sane people want to do anyhow.
Another approach would be to look into wrapping yaz-iconv
Just a quick note to let you know pymarc v2.41 is available:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymarc/
The change in this release is functionality from Mark Matienzo for
supporting reading/writing MARC records with non-numeric tags.
Thanks Mark!
//Ed
In the interests of all-that-is-agile, and the HolidaySeason™ I took a
quick (imperfect) stab at providing some basic suggest functionality
at id.loc.gov which you can find documented in the OpenSearch
Description:
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/opensearch/
I used the OpenSearch Suggestions exte
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
> Ben, another problem with digestibility of the search results is that it's
> not XHTML, and therefore not well-formed XML, making it impossible to
> process with XPath.
What page did you find that wasn't valid XHTML? The JSON should be
easier
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:18 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> That looks more like an old-style index browse than what I'd think of as a
> suggestion. You've returned nothing until the user has typed enough
> characters to restrict the number of index terms to be returned to a rational
> number.
Yes,
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> For VIAF, rankings are calculated based on the number of institutions
> that have controlled that name and the amount of attention the
> institutions have given to that name (e.g. size of their respective name
> authority records).
Neat. It wou
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Couple of things: first, what we have at id.loc.gov is NOT LCSH, but a copy
> of the LC subject authority file. The entries in this file form the basis
> for subject headings, most of which add "facets" to the authority entry when
> forming the
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
> my interest is how I (or other people
> developing their own autosuggest systems based on the subject headings) can
> pull updates of the master authority XML file into my index of terms.
Take a look at the Atom feed for id.loc.gov [1]. I thi
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:11 AM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> The file contains tab delimited records. The first column is the ID
> number of the FAST record that the term comes from. The second column
> is the MARC Authorities field that the term came from. The third column
> is the term itself. The
Nice work Bill! I particularly like your use of the element to
enable auto-discovery of these resources:
Did you shy away from adding the RIS and Refworks formats as links
because it wasn't clear what MIME type to use?
I'd be interested in helping flesh out the RDF a bit if you are
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Andrew Hankinson
wrote:
> I'd also like to send a nod out to Ed Summer's Python BagIt library,
> (http://github.com/edsu/bagit) which I just found this morning in preparing
> to write this email. Sorry for the duplication! When I started this project
> the only
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Wikipedia has 720 links to www.rockhall.com,
> which is a dream for any website,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch/www.rockhall.com
I had no idea that Wikipedia provided a live search of external links.
Up until now I have be
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> Hmm, just because a given page is linked to from a wikipedia page, can one
> assume that the target of the link is about the same thing as the original
> page? I'm not sure how often this assumption would be violated?
Yeah, unfortunate
I realize it's of limited utility compared to yet another web2.0 API,
but I think it would be good to see Works represented somehow in the
RDF Linked Data views...assuming they're not already.
//Ed
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Open Library now has Works defined, and is lo
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Ed, thanks. I'll need you to be a bit more -v on this one: are you asking
> for a an RDF option on the API, or that Works as a whole be represented as
> linked data? The Open Library doesn't present itself as linked data, as you
> know, and alt
Hey Charles,
How do these jobs end up on your blog again? It seems like you have a
lot of good content. Given the number of jobs that are posted on here
and on your site I wonder if it might be feasible to create a little
alerting/subscription service for code4lib folks who want a technical
job th
I just found out about a code4lib regional full day meeting in the DC
area at the National Agriculture Library in Beltsville, Maryland. I
figured it couldn't hurt to announce it on here in case you have any
interest in attending. Agenda is below.
It would be nice if the organizers of code4libmdc c
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM, William Denton wrote:
> A quick note to anyone who's interested in Code4Lib North (6-7 May in
> Kingston, Ontario) and isn't on the mailing list for it:
>
> http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North
>
> Details about the mailing list are there. Planning's goi
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, William Denton wrote:
> So far there are just three people with ideas for talks (me, Walter Lewis,
> Art Rhyno). Have the other local chapters found it works well to have more
> time for informal stuff, or lightning talks, or "Ask Anything" like I see
> NYC is doi
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Tim Spalding wrote:
> While the new draft is written in a much friendlier tone, and even has
> some improvements, it also takes away concrete rights that libraries
> had in the earlier drafts, including the right to consider fully
> "theirs" records that a library
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Tim Spalding wrote:
> I'm inclined to start adding it to the "I'm talking about" and "I'm
> adding" links on LibraryThing. I imagine it could be easily added to
> many library applications too—anywhere there is or could be a "share
> this on Twitter" link, includin
whoops, forgot my footnote :-)
[1]
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/fa5da2608865453
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Jakob Voss wrote:
> If you want to put bibliographic metadata
> into twitter annotations (good idea) you first need to clarify the basic
> purpose of embedding this information. I see two of them:
>
> I. Identification: To identify other tweets and resources that r
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Jakob Voss wrote:
> P.S: An example of a CSL record from the JavaScript client:
>
> {
> "title": "True Crime Radio and Listener Disenchantment with Network
> Broadcasting, 1935-1946",
> "author": [ {
> "family": "Razlogova",
> "given": "Elena"
> } ],
> "co
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Eric Hellman wrote:
> Since this thread has turned into a discussion on OpenURL...
>
> I have to say that during the OpenURL 1.0 standardization process, we
> definitely had moments of despair. Today, I'm willing to derive satisfaction
> from "it works" and over
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
> I actually think this lack of any specified response format is a large
> factor in the stagnation of OpenURL as a technology. Since a resolver
> is under no obligation to do anything but present a web page it's
> difficult for local entreprene
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Eric Hellman wrote:
> Eek. I was hoping for something much simpler. Do you realize that you're
> asking for service taxonomy?
I doubt I understand the full scope of the problem (never made it
through the spec myself). But I imagine a sensible use of HTTP status
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
> Just to clarify -- OpenURL 1.0 does not assume HTTP is being used.
Oh, so that's the problem!
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Mike Taylor wrote:
> Oh, what is the solution when using it in RDF?
I've been using the Bibliographic Ontology myself:
http://bibliontology.com/
Lots of stuff in there for journals, etc ... and reuse of other
vocabularies like event, foaf, prism and (ahem) dcte
Folks involved in the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS)
effort are seeking feedback on the latest version of the spec [1] from
the publishing and library communities--and specifically from the
library-tech oriented code4lib subscribers. The goal is to gather
enough feedback for a v1.0 rel
Hi Karen,
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> but I would have expected to see a title data element listed somewhere. Is
> dc assumed? Or is the bibliographic description scheme an open question?
The nice thing about Atom is that it allows you to layer in whatever
you want name
As Kevin said, I think you can use the Atom feed to page backwards
through time. Basically this amounts to programatically following the
links in the feed, applying creates, updates and
deletes as you go until you make it to Feb. 15, 2010.
Currently this would involve walking from:
http://id.l
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
> I found it to be pretty fast. I
> can easily integrate this into an Orbeon pipeline to keep my Solr index of
> LCSH terms up to date.
That's awesome Ethan, thanks for giving it a whirl.
//Ed
Of possible interest to someone looking to help out with some
opensource hacking on a high profile project...
//Ed
-- Forwarded message --
From: Thomas Baker
Date: Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Subject: DCMI's Vocabulary Management Tool published as an Open Source project
To: dc-a
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> I've been sensing a flaw in HTTP for some time now. It seems like you
> ought to be able to do everything through a URL that you can using a
> complete interface to HTTP. Specifically, I'd love to be able to
> specify values for HTTP headers i
I think it's pretty common to see query params used in this way to
control the representation you get back. I'd probably not stir up the
nest of REST vipers by creating a generic mechanism for overriding
http request headers. But instead just have a simple 'format' query
param:
http://viaf.or
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Erik Hetzner wrote:
> There is a time for a URI that can use content-negotiation (the Accept
> header, etc.) to get, e.g., PDF, HTML, or plain text. As an example:
>
> http://example.org/RFC1
>
> And there is a time when we want to explicitly refer to a particular
Wow, this looks like it was a great event. I don't suppose any of the
talks were recorded, or that any slides are available? I'm
particularly interested in Karen Estlund's talk about NoCode: Digital
Preservation of Electronic Records...and well, all of the talks :-)
//Ed
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Jakob Voss wrote:
> P.S: By the way we created yet another mailing list for Solr in libraries to
> discuss such things:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/solr4lib
ugh
:-)
//Ed
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote:
> Of course, subfield $3 values are not any kind of controlled vocabulary, so
> it's hard to do much with them programmatically.
A few years ago I analyzed the subfield 3 values in the Library of
Congress data up at the Internet Archive [1]
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> So "dc:relation" does sound like the right vocabulary element for generic
> "related web page page", thanks. Is the value of dc:relation _neccesarily_
> a URI/URL? I hope so, because otherwise I'm not sure dc:relation is
> sufficient, as
d'oh, s/dcterms:related/dcterms:relation/ (thanks ksclarke). I also
meant to point out that rdfs:seeAlso is another option.
//Ed
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Ed Summers wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>> So "dc:relation" d
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Jason Ronallo wrote:
> I'd like to bring this back to your suggestion to just forget OAI-PMH
> and crawl the web. I think that's probably the long-term way forward.
I definitely had the same thoughts while reading this thread. Owen,
are you forced to stay within
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
> There's no philosophical problem with CloudFront, but there might be
> practical ones. While I should theoretically be able to use s3fs to allow
> the software to seamlessly interact with S3, the software also assumes
> you're using it to str
Hi Terry,
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Reese, Terry
wrote:
> This is one of the reasons you really can't trust the information found in
> position 9. This is one of the reasons why when I wrote MarcEdit, I utilize
> a mixed process when working with data and determining characterset -- a
>
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Godmar Back wrote:
> Here's my hand ||*( [1].
||*)
I'm sorry that I was so unhelpful w/ the "patches welcome" message on
your docfix. You're right, it was antagonistic of me to suggest you
send a patch for something so simple. Plus, it wasn't even accurate,
beca
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Godmar Back wrote:
> Here's a make-up pull request especially made for you :-)
>
> https://github.com/edsu/pymarc/pull/25
Merged! :-D
//Ed
Hi Jodi,
Was there a reason why you included the "Pool temperatures, company
registrations, dairy prices …" in the job description at:
http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/842
I almost flagged the posting as spam...
//Ed
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:03 AM, wrote:
> Pool temperatures, company regist
Oh I see it's in the job description you got from the ScraperWiki blog post:
http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/03/13/job-advert-data-scientist-web-scraper/
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Ed Summers wrote:
> Hi Jodi,
>
> Was there a reason why you included the "Pool te
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Chad Benjamin Nelson
wrote:
> I think it is just some examples of the weird and interesting data in
> scraperwiki.
Yeah, I guess it would be kind of pointless spam eh? :-)
//Ed
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:02 PM, GORE, EMILY wrote:
> My apologies to all for the multiple listings, and I did forget to get
> approval from Roy T. for all of them. Please forgive!
No worries Emily. If there is a way the jobs.code4lib.org admin
interface can be improved definitely let me know.
Just a quick note to let you know that site statistics for Code4lib
Journal [1] are going to be emailed regularly to the c4lj-discuss
Google Group [2]. The stats are provided as CSV attachments from
Google Analytics, which include page views, visitors and traffic
sources.
If you have any suggestio
Two other projects that are worth taking a look at are VIVO [1] and
BibApp [2]. Both take the approach of enabling institutions to manage
information about their faculty, which can then be federated more
widely. I guess the reality is that there will be lots of identifiers
for faculty, and simple s
Of potential interest, to folks interested in linked data.
//Ed
-- Forwarded message --
From: Felix Sasaki
Date: Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Subject: "MultilingualWeb" Workshop: Linked Open Data
To: e...@pobox.com
Dear Ed,
I am writing to let you know about an upcoming even
I've been using NodeJS in a few side projects lately, and have come to
like it quite a bit for certain types of applications: specifically
applications that need to do a lot of I/O in memory constrained
environments. A recent one is Wikitweets [1] which provides a real
time view of tweets on Twitte
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Berry, Rob wrote:
> You almost certainly should not rewrite an entire codebase from scratch
> unless there's an extremely good reason to do so. JoelOnSoftware did a good
> piece on it - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog69.html.
>
> Why has your pr
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Berry, Rob wrote:
> Though re Python I would say mixing Django with Twisted is a fairly blatant
> error. There are libraries built on Twisted to serve web-pages, and if you're
> doing event-driven programming you should really be using them.
Heh, but part of your
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Berry, Rob wrote:
> No, fair enough, you are right. If that's the paradigm you want it would be a
> better bet to go for a language that has it built in from the ground up.
And (just so it isn't lost) you are absolutely right to question
whether there is a legitim
I just wanted to apologize for 3 duplicate job postings that were sent
today. Now that there are multiple "job curators" who are finding jobs
and putting them on jobs.code4lib.org it is important to double check
that a job hasn't been posted already. At the minimum I think this is
a social conventi
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Kyle Banerjee
wrote:
> I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry that it's a sign of progress that a 40
> year old utility designed to identify file types is now just beginning to
> be able to recognize a format that's been around for almost 50 years...
Laugh :-)
//Ed
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote:
> There's a discussion going on on Wikipedia that may be of interest to
> subscribers of this list:
Thanks for the heads up Stuart! It is an interesting discussion, and
one that hopefully can build on the excellent work that Jakob Voss and
oth
Oops, sorry about that Mark. I should have looked more carefully
before adding this after seeing it in your TweetStream. I'll remove
the duplicate. Also happened today with the Yale posting. I guess I
need to come up with some smarts to detect duplicates.
//Ed
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:43 PM, w
Paging Oregon State: do we know why code4lib.org isn't responding?
http://code4lib.org/
HTTP requests currently seem to timeout.
//Ed
PS. Thanks to Carol Bean for noticing it, and bringing it up in #code4lib :-)
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Stern, Randall wrote:
> This will be a great opportunity to meet your peers at local institutions and
> generate conversation on code4lib related topics in which you are interested!
> Please add your proposals now (please, by August 1) for
>
> (a) Prepared talks (
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Carol Bean wrote:
> I thought the distinction was that Lightning talks are very short and more
> informal.
well, that too :-)
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